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Report of Independent Auditors
To the Shareholders and Board of Directors of
Dreyfus New Jersey Municipal Bond Fund, Inc.
In planning and performing our audit of the financial statements of Dreyfus
New Jersey Municipal Bond Fund, Inc. for the year ended December 31, 1999, we
considered its internal control, including control activities for
safeguarding securities, in order to determine our auditing procedures for
the purpose of expressing our opinion on the financial statements and to
comply with the requirements of Form N-SAR, not to provide assurance on
internal control.
The management of Dreyfus New Jersey Municipal Bond Fund, Inc. is responsible
for establishing and maintaining internal control. In fulfilling this
responsibility, estimates and judgments by management are required to assess
the expected benefits and related costs of controls. Generally, controls that
are relevant to an audit pertain to the entity's objective of preparing
financial statements for external purposes that are fairly presented in
conformity with generally accepted accounting principles. Those controls
include the safeguarding of assets against unauthorized acquisition, use or
disposition.
Because of inherent limitations in internal control, error or fraud may occur
and not be detected. Also, projection of any evaluation of internal control
to future periods is subject to the risk that it may become inadequate
because of changes in conditions or that the effectiveness of the design and
operation may deteriorate.
Our consideration of internal control would not necessarily disclose all
matters in internal control that might be material weaknesses under standards
established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. A
material weakness is a condition in which the design or operation of one or
more of the internal control components does not reduce to a relatively low
level the risk that misstatements caused by error or fraud in amounts that
would be material in relation to the financial statements being audited may
occur and not be detected within a timely period by employees in the normal
course of performing their assigned functions. However, we noted no matters
involving internal control and its operation, including controls for
safeguarding securities, that we consider to be material weaknesses as
defined above at December 31, 1999.
This report is intended solely for the information and use of management, the
Board of Directors of Dreyfus New Jersey Municipal Bond Fund, Inc., and the
Securities and Exchange Commission and is not intended to be and should not
be used by anyone other than these specified parties.
ERNST & YOUNG LLP
February 3, 2000
BY-LAWS
OF
DREYFUS NEW JERSEY MUNICIPAL BOND FUND, INC.
(A Maryland Corporation)
___________
ARTICLE I
STOCKHOLDERS
1. CERTIFICATES REPRESENTING STOCK. Certificates representing
shares of stock shall set forth thereon the statements prescribed by
Section 2-211 of the Maryland General Corporation Law ("General Corporation
Law") and by any other applicable provision of law and shall be signed by the
Chairman of the Board or the President or a Vice President and countersigned
by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary or the Treasurer or an Assistant
Treasurer and may be sealed with the corporate seal. The signatures of any
such officers may be either manual or facsimile signatures and the corporate
seal may be either facsimile or any other form of seal. In case any such
officer who has signed manually or by facsimile any such certificate ceases
to be such officer before the certificate is issued, it nevertheless may be
issued by the corporation with the same effect as if the officer had not
ceased to be such officer as of the date of its issue.
No certificate representing shares of stock shall be issued for any
share of stock until such share is fully paid, except as otherwise authorized
in Section 2-206 of the General Corporation Law.
The corporation may issue a new certificate of stock in place of
any certificate theretofore issued by it, alleged to have been lost, stolen
or destroyed, and the Board of Directors may require, in its discretion, the
owner of any such certificate or the owner's legal representative to give
bond, with sufficient surety, to the corporation to indemnify it against any
loss or claim that may arise by reason of the issuance of a new certificate.
The Board of Directors at any time may discontinue the issuance of
certificates representing shares of stock and by written notice to each
stockholder, may require the surrender of certificates of stock to the
corporation for cancellation. Such surrender and cancellation shall not
affect the ownership of stock in the corporation.
2. SHARE TRANSFERS. Upon compliance with provisions restricting
the transferability of shares of stock, if any, transfers of shares of stock
of the corporation shall be made only on the stock transfer books of the
corporation by the record holder thereof or by his attorney thereunto
authorized by power of attorney duly executed and filed with the Secretary of
the corporation or with a transfer agent or a registrar, if any, and on
surrender of the certificate or certificates, if any, for such shares of
stock properly endorsed and the payment of all taxes due thereon.
3. RECORD DATE FOR STOCKHOLDERS. The Board of Directors may fix,
in advance, a date as the record date for the purpose of determining
stockholders entitled to notice of, or to vote at, any meeting of
stockholders, or stockholders entitled to receive payment of any dividend or
the allotment of any rights or in order to make a determination of
stockholders for any other proper purpose. Such date, in any case, shall be
not more than 90 days, and in case of a meeting of stockholders not less than
10 days, prior to the date on which the meeting or particular action
requiring such determination of stockholders is to be held or taken. In lieu
of fixing a record date, the Board of Directors may provide that the stock
transfer books shall be closed for a stated period but not to exceed 20 days.
If the stock transfer books are closed for the purpose of determining
stockholders entitled to notice of, or to vote at, a meeting of stockholders,
such books shall be closed for at least 10 days immediately preceding such
meeting. If no record date is fixed and the stock transfer books are not
closed for the determination of stockholders: (1) The record date for the
determination of stockholders entitled to notice of, or to vote at, a meeting
of stockholders shall be at the close of business on the day on which the
notice of meeting is mailed or the day 30 days before the meeting, whichever
is the closer date to the meeting; and (2) The record date for the
determination of stockholders entitled to receive payment of a dividend or an
allotment of any rights shall be at the close of business on the day on which
the resolution of the Board of Directors declaring the dividend or allotment
of rights is adopted, provided that the payment or allotment date shall not
be more than 60 days after the date on which the resolution is adopted.
4. MEANING OF CERTAIN TERMS. As used herein in respect of the
right to notice of a meeting of stockholders or a waiver thereof or to
participate or vote thereat or to consent or dissent in writing in lieu of a
meeting, as the case may be, the term "share of stock" or "shares of stock"
or "stockholder" or "stockholders" refers to an outstanding share or shares
of stock and to a holder or holders of record of outstanding shares of stock
when the corporation is authorized to issue only one class of shares of stock
and said reference also is intended to include any outstanding share or
shares of stock and any holder or holders of record of outstanding shares of
stock of any class or series upon which or upon whom the Charter confers such
rights where there are two or more classes or series of shares or upon which
or upon whom the General Corporation Law confers such rights notwithstanding
that the Charter may provide for more than one class or series of shares of
stock, one or more of which are limited or denied such rights thereunder.
5. STOCKHOLDER MEETINGS.
ANNUAL MEETINGS. If a meeting of the stockholders of the
corporation is required by the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, to
elect the directors, then there shall be submitted to the stockholders at
such meeting the question of the election of directors, and a meeting called
for that purpose shall be designated the annual meeting of stockholders for
that year. In other years in which no action by stockholders is required for
the aforesaid election of directors, no annual meeting need be held.
SPECIAL MEETINGS. Special stockholder meetings for any
purpose may be called by the Board of Directors or the President and shall be
called by the Secretary for the purpose of removing a Director whenever the
holders of shares entitled to at least ten percent of all the votes entitled
to be cast at such meeting shall make a duly authorized request that such
meeting be called. The Secretary shall call a special meeting of
stockholders for all other purposes whenever the holders of shares entitled
to at least a majority of all the votes entitled to be cast at such meeting
shall make a duly authorized request that such meeting be called. Such
request shall state the purpose of such meeting and the matters proposed to
be acted on thereat, and no other business shall be transacted at any such
special meeting. The Secretary shall inform such stockholders of the
reasonably estimated costs of preparing and mailing the notice of the
meeting, and upon payment to the corporation of such costs, the Secretary
shall give notice in the manner provided for below.
PLACE AND TIME. Stockholder meetings shall be held at such
place, either within the State of Maryland or at such other place within the
United States, and at such date or dates as the directors from time to time
may fix.
NOTICE OR ACTUAL OR CONSTRUCTIVE WAIVER OF NOTICE. Written or
printed notice of all meetings shall be given by the Secretary and shall
state the time and place of the meeting. The notice of a special meeting
shall state in all instances the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is
called. Written or printed notice of any meeting shall be given to each
stockholder either by mail or by presenting it to the stockholder personally
or by leaving it at his or her residence or usual place of business not less
than 10 days and not more than 90 days before the date of the meeting, unless
any provisions of the General Corporation Law shall prescribe a different
elapsed period of time, to each stockholder at his or her address appearing
on the books of the corporation or the address supplied by the stockholder
for the purpose of notice. If mailed, notice shall be deemed to be given
when deposited in the United States mail addressed to the stockholder at his
or her post office address as it appears on the records of the corporation
with postage thereon prepaid. Whenever any notice of the time, place or
purpose of any meeting of stockholders is required to be given under the
provisions of these by-laws or of the General Corporation Law, a waiver
thereof in writing, signed by the stockholder and filed with the records of
the meeting, whether before or after the holding thereof, or actual
attendance or representation at the meeting shall be deemed equivalent to the
giving of such notice to such stockholder. The foregoing requirements of
notice also shall apply, whenever the corporation shall have any class of
stock which is not entitled to vote, to holders of stock who are not entitled
to vote at the meeting, but who are entitled to notice thereof and to dissent
from any action taken thereat.
QUORUM. At any meeting of stockholders, the presence in
person or by proxy of stockholders entitled to cast one-third of the votes
thereat shall constitute a quorum. In the absence of a quorum, the
stockholders present in person or by proxy, by majority vote and without
notice other than by announcement, may adjourn the meeting from time to time,
but not for a period exceeding 120 days after the original record date until
a quorum shall attend.
ADJOURNED MEETINGS. A meeting of stockholders convened on the
date for which it was called (including one adjourned to achieve a quorum as
provided in the paragraph above) may be adjourned from time to time without
further notice to a date not more than 120 days after the original record
date, and any business may be transacted at any adjourned meeting which could
have been transacted at the meeting as originally called.
CONDUCT OF MEETING. Meetings of the stockholders shall be
presided over by one of the following officers in the order of seniority and
if present and acting: the President, a Vice President or, if none of the
foregoing is in office and present and acting, by a chairman to be chosen by
the stockholders. The Secretary of the corporation or, in his or her
absence, an Assistant Secretary, shall act as secretary of every meeting, but
if neither the Secretary nor an Assistant Secretary is present the chairman
of the meeting shall appoint a secretary of the meeting.
PROXY REPRESENTATION. Every stockholder may authorize another
person or persons to act for him by proxy in all matters in which a
stockholder is entitled to participate, whether for the purposes of
determining the stockholder's presence at a meeting, or whether by waiving
notice of any meeting, voting or participating at a meeting, expressing
consent or dissent without a meeting or otherwise. Every proxy shall be
executed in writing by the stockholder or by his or her duly authorized
attorney-in-fact or be in such other form as may be permitted by the General
Corporation Law, including documents conveyed by electronic transmission and
filed with the Secretary of the corporation. A copy, facsimile transmission
or other reproduction of the writing or transmission may be substituted for
the original writing or transmission for any purpose for which the original
transmission could be used. No unrevoked proxy shall be valid after 11
months from the date of its execution, unless a longer time is expressly
provided therein. The placing of a stockholder's name on a proxy pursuant to
telephonic or electronically transmitted instructions obtained pursuant to
procedures reasonably designed to verify that such instructions have been
authorized by such stockholder shall constitute execution of such proxy by or
on behalf of such stockholder.
INSPECTORS OF ELECTION. The directors, in advance of any
meeting, may, but need not, appoint one or more inspectors to act at the
meeting or any adjournment thereof. If an inspector or inspectors are not
appointed, the person presiding at the meeting may, but need not, appoint one
or more inspectors. In case any person who may be appointed as an inspector
fails to appear or act, the vacancy may be filled by appointment made by the
directors in advance of the meeting or at the meeting by the person presiding
thereat. Each inspector, if any, before entering upon the discharge of his
duties, shall take and sign an oath to execute faithfully the duties of
inspector at such meeting with strict impartiality and according to the best
of his ability. The inspectors, if any, shall determine the number of shares
outstanding and the voting power of each, the shares represented at the
meeting, the existence of a quorum and the validity and effect of proxies,
and shall receive votes, ballots or consents, hear and determine all
challenges and questions arising in connection with the right to vote, count
and tabulate all votes, ballots or consents, determine the result and do such
acts as are proper to conduct the election or vote with fairness to all
stockholders. On request of the person presiding at the meeting or any
stockholder, the inspector or inspectors, if any, shall make a report in
writing of any challenge, question or matter determined by him or them and
execute a certificate of any fact found by him or them.
VOTING. Each share of stock shall entitle the holder thereof
to one vote, except in the election of directors, at which each said vote may
be cast for as many persons as there are directors to be elected. Except for
election of directors, a majority of the votes cast at a meeting of
stockholders, duly called and at which a quorum is present, shall be
sufficient to take or authorize action upon any matter which may come before
a meeting, unless more than a majority of votes cast is required by the
corporation's Articles of Incorporation. A plurality of all the votes cast
at a meeting at which a quorum is present shall be sufficient to elect a
director.
6. INFORMAL ACTION. Any action required or permitted to be taken
at a meeting of stockholders may be taken without a meeting if a consent in
writing, setting forth such action, is signed by all the stockholders
entitled to vote on the subject matter thereof and any other stockholders
entitled to notice of a meeting of stockholders (but not to vote thereat)
have waived in writing any rights which they may have to dissent from such
action and such consent and waiver are filed with the records of the
corporation.
ARTICLE II
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
1. FUNCTIONS AND DEFINITION. The business and affairs of the
corporation shall be managed under the direction of a Board of Directors.
The use of the phrase "entire board" herein refers to the total number of
directors which the corporation would have if there were no vacancies.
2. QUALIFICATIONS AND NUMBER. Each director shall be a natural
person of full age. A director need not be a stockholder, a citizen of the
United States or a resident of the State of Maryland. The initial Board of
Directors shall consist of one person. Thereafter, the number of directors
constituting the entire board shall never be less than three or the number of
stockholders, whichever is less. At any regular meeting or at any special
meeting called for that purpose, a majority of the entire Board of Directors
may increase or decrease the number of directors, provided that the number
thereof shall never be less than three or the number of stockholders,
whichever is less, nor more than twelve and further provided that the tenure
of office of a director shall not be affected by any decrease in the number
of directors.
3. ELECTION AND TERM. The first Board of Directors shall consist
of the director named in the Articles of Incorporation and shall hold office
until the first meeting of stockholders or until his or her successor has
been elected and qualified. Thereafter, directors who are elected at a
meeting of stockholders, and directors who are elected in the interim to fill
vacancies and newly created directorships, shall hold office until their
successors have been elected and qualified. Newly created directorships and
any vacancies in the Board of Directors, other than vacancies resulting from
the removal of directors by the stockholders, may be filled by the Board of
Directors, subject to the provisions of the Investment Company Act of 1940,
as amended. Newly created directorships filled by the Board of Directors
shall be by action of a majority of the entire Board of Directors then in
office. All vacancies to be filled by the Board of Directors may be filled
by a majority of the remaining members of the Board of Directors, although
such majority is less than a quorum thereof.
4. MEETINGS.
TIME. Meetings shall be held at such time as the Board of
Directors shall fix, except that the first meeting of a newly elected Board
of Directors shall be held as soon after its election as the directors
conveniently may assemble.
PLACE. Meetings shall be held at such place within or without
the State of Maryland as shall be fixed by the Board.
CALL. No call shall be required for regular meetings for
which the time and place have been fixed. Special meetings may be called by
or at the direction of the President or of a majority of the directors in
office.
NOTICE OR ACTUAL OR CONSTRUCTIVE WAIVER. Whenever any notice
of the time, place or purpose of any meeting of directors or any committee
thereof is required to be given under the provisions of the General
Corporation Law or of these by-laws, a waiver thereof in writing, signed by
the director or committee member entitled to such notice and filed with the
records of the meeting, whether before or after the holding thereof, or
actual attendance at the meeting shall be deemed equivalent to the giving of
such notice to such director or such committee member.
QUORUM AND ACTION. A majority of the entire Board of
Directors shall constitute a quorum except when a vacancy or vacancies
prevents such majority, whereupon a majority of the directors in office shall
constitute a quorum, provided such majority shall constitute at least one-
third of the entire Board and, in no event, less than two directors. A
majority of the directors present, whether or not a quorum is present, may
adjourn a meeting to another time and place. Except as otherwise
specifically provided by the Articles of Incorporation, the General
Corporation Law or these by-laws, the action of a majority of the directors
present at a meeting at which a quorum is present shall be the action of the
Board of Directors.
CHAIRMAN OF THE MEETING. The Chairman of the Board, if any
and if present and acting, or the President or any other director chosen by
the Board, shall preside at all meetings.
5. REMOVAL OF DIRECTORS. Any or all of the directors may be
removed for cause or without cause by the stockholders, who may elect a
successor or successors to fill any resulting vacancy or vacancies for the
unexpired term of the removed director or directors.
6. COMMITTEES. The Board of Directors may appoint from among its
members an Executive Committee and other committees composed of one or more
directors and may delegate to such committee or committees, in the intervals
between meetings of the Board of Directors, any or all of the powers of the
Board of Directors in the management of the business and affairs of the
corporation to the extent permitted by law. In the absence of any member of
any such committee, the members thereof present at any meeting, whether or
not they constitute a quorum, may appoint a member of the Board of Directors
to act in the place of such absent member.
7. INFORMAL ACTION. Any action required or permitted to be taken
at any meeting of the Board of Directors or of any committee thereof may be
taken without a meeting, if a written consent to such action is signed by all
members of the Board of Directors or any such committee, as the case may be,
and such written consent is filed with the minutes of the proceedings of the
Board or any such committee.
Members of the Board of Directors or any committee designated
thereby may participate in a meeting of such Board or committee by means of a
conference telephone or similar communications equipment by means of which
all persons participating in the meeting can hear each other at the same
time. Participation by such means shall constitute presence in person at a
meeting.
ARTICLE III
OFFICERS
The corporation may have a Chairman of the Board and shall have a
President, a Secretary and a Treasurer, who shall be elected by the Board of
Directors, and may have such other officers, assistant officers and agents as
the Board of Directors shall authorize from time to time. Any two or more
offices, except those of President and Vice President, may be held by the
same person, but no person shall execute, acknowledge or verify any
instrument in more than one capacity, if such instrument is required by law
to be executed, acknowledged or verified by two or more officers.
Any officer or agent may be removed by the Board of Directors
whenever, in its judgment, the best interests of the corporation will be
served thereby.
ARTICLE IV
PRINCIPAL OFFICE - RESIDENT AGENT - STOCK LEDGER
The address of the principal office of the corporation in the State
of Maryland prescribed by the General Corporation Law is 300 East Lombard
Street, c/o The Corporation Trust Incorporated, Baltimore, Maryland 21202.
The name and address of the resident agent in the State of Maryland
prescribed by the General Corporation Law are: The Corporation Trust
Incorporated, 300 East Lombard Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21202.
The corporation shall maintain, at its principal office in the
State of Maryland prescribed by the General Corporation Law or at the
business office or an agency of the corporation, an original or duplicate
stock ledger containing the names and addresses of all stockholders and the
number of shares of each class held by each stockholder. Such stock ledger
may be in written form or any other form capable of being converted into
written form within a reasonable time for visual inspection.
ARTICLE V
CORPORATE SEAL
The corporate seal shall have inscribed thereon the name of the
corporation and shall be in such form and contain such other words and/or
figures as the Board of Directors shall determine or the law require.
ARTICLE VI
FISCAL YEAR
The fiscal year of the corporation or any series thereof shall be
fixed, and shall be subject to change, by the Board of Directors.
ARTICLE VII
CONTROL OVER BY-LAWS
The power to make, alter, amend and repeal the by-laws is vested
exclusively in the Board of Directors of the corporation.
ARTICLE VIII
INDEMNIFICATION
1. INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS. The corporation
shall indemnify its directors to the fullest extent that indemnification of
directors is permitted by the law. The corporation shall indemnify its
officers to the same extent as its directors and to such further extent as is
consistent with law. The corporation shall indemnify its directors and
officers who while serving as directors or officers also serve at the request
of the corporation as a director, officer, partner, trustee, employee, agent
or fiduciary of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, other
enterprise or employee benefit plan to the same extent as its directors and,
in the case of officers, to such further extent as is consistent with law.
The indemnification and other rights provided by this Article shall continue
as to a person who has ceased to be a director or officer and shall inure to
the benefit of the heirs, executors and administrators of such a person.
This Article shall not protect any such person against any liability to the
corporation or any stockholder thereof to which such person would otherwise
be subject by reason of willful misfeasance, bad faith, gross negligence or
reckless disregard of the duties involved in the conduct of his office
("disabling conduct").
2. ADVANCES. Any current or former director or officer of the
corporation seeking indemnification within the scope of this Article shall be
entitled to advances from the corporation for payment of the reasonable
expenses incurred by him in connection with the matter as to which he is
seeking indemnification in the manner and to the fullest extent permissible
under the General Corporation Law. The person seeking indemnification shall
provide to the corporation a written affirmation of his good faith belief
that the standard of conduct necessary for indemnification by the corporation
has been met and a written undertaking to repay any such advance if it should
ultimately be determined that the standard of conduct has not been met. In
addition, at least one of the following additional conditions shall be met:
(a) the person seeking indemnification shall provide a security in form and
amount acceptable to the corporation for his or her undertaking; (b) the
corporation is insured against losses arising by reason of the advance; or
(c) a majority of a quorum of directors of the corporation who are neither
"interested persons" as defined in Section 2(a)(19) of the Investment Company
Act of 1940, as amended, nor parties to the proceeding ("disinterested non-
party directors"), or independent legal counsel, in a written opinion, shall
have determined, based on a review of facts readily available to the
corporation at the time the advance is proposed to be made, that there is
reason to believe that the person seeking indemnification will ultimately be
found to be entitled to indemnification.
3. PROCEDURE. At the request of any person claiming
indemnification under this Article, the Board of Directors shall determine,
or cause to be determined, in a manner consistent with the General
Corporation Law, whether the standards required by this Article have been
met. Indemnification shall be made only following: (a) a final decision on
the merits by a court or other body before whom the proceeding was brought
that the person to be indemnified was not liable by reason of disabling
conduct or (b) in the absence of such a decision, a reasonable determination,
based upon a review of the facts, that the person to be indemnified was not
liable by reason of disabling conduct by (i) the vote of a majority of a
quorum of disinterested non-party directors or (ii) an independent legal
counsel in a written opinion.
4. INDEMNIFICATION OF EMPLOYEES AND AGENTS. Employees and agents
who are not officers or directors of the corporation may be indemnified, and
reasonable expenses may be advanced to such employees or agents, as may be
provided by action of the Board of Directors or by contract, subject to any
limitations imposed by the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.
5. OTHER RIGHTS. The Board of Directors may make further
provision consistent with law for indemnification and advance of expenses to
directors, officers, employees and agents by resolution, agreement or
otherwise. The indemnification provided by this Article shall not be deemed
exclusive of any other right, with respect to indemnification or otherwise,
to which those seeking indemnification may be entitled under any insurance or
other agreement or resolution of stockholders or disinterested non-party
directors or otherwise.
6. AMENDMENTS. References in this Article are to the General
Corporation Law and to the Investment Company Act of 1940 as from time to
time amended. No amendment of the by-laws shall affect any right of any
person under this Article based on any event, omission or proceeding prior to
the amendment.
Dated: January 11, 1988
Amended: December 31, 1999
